The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1940, Page 2

PRO, CON OF LIGUOR QUESTION & Referendum on Territorial Confrol Presenied at Cluh Meeting (Continued from Page One) trol, with. the argument U revenue would then al to the Territory, both tax ar profit from the liguor business False Revenue ‘However,” he said we should not be concerned with th The revenue from liquor is a ialse reve- nue and it is I that Territorial liquor comntr ild reduce the li- quor business he we! pecple. “The well-being of the peoplc should be considered be all else Regarding businesses already es- tablished which would be injurzd by a change in the law, Mr. Ander- son said that such a law would prob- ably not be effective until 1942 whicl would give time for those who have investments to make other plan King Reduced would not he stopped under Territorial control Mr derson said, “but it would be duced.” He expressed as his idea liguor control law for it should be based on the liquor laws of the States now have control and the best the laws of each state should be in- corporated in Alaska'slaw. Blind Voting Among the principal points brought out by Mr. Schoettler in op- posing the referendum was that as it stands, there is nothing to gualify the measure. “There is nothing in the bill to indicate what one is voli The of for voter is asked blindly (o vote in favor of liquor contrel without knowing what he is to get Regarding the claim of increased | g revenue for the Territory under Terrvitorial liquor control, Mr Schoettler scouted this, based on the experiences of the State of Washington, “which 1s generally conceded to be the Utopia of mon- opolistic control “A comparison of the ‘Washington’s monopolistic business, and Alaska’s system provides the Stale of nquor n 1939 on a total income of $17,298,188.81, which lncludes sales license fees, taxes and minor, mis cellaneous items, the State of Wash- | ington earned $2.40 per capita for| the year. The national aver s Jess than $2.00 per capita. Under our own present system of licensing and excise taxes, ka carped $3.67 per capita for thel two-year period of 1937 through | 1839 on a sale of approximately $4,500,000." Mr. Schoettler asked how advo- cates of Territorial control recon- ciled statements of eater income for the Territory under tic control “when it is known that stores and warehouges whl hav be rented, fixtures purchase: monopolis-{ night, es- , it would be nec 1 on all stc , which approximately a mil- Administration Cost The administrative cost. in State of Washington s in excess m per capita and Alaska’s annual per capita cost of administratior inder the present system is 36 cents, $1 of thi ka can be proud \chievement under its liquos imin- jon which, best of all 1 scandal,” Mr. S tler \ia He called attention to the effect mall inities, t mall to naintain a ritorial liquor store, Herc," he one lucky trader would get the jon, which would probably put his competitor | ut of busine: ke 2t wil Liguer b the pri of the community.’ Cheaper Here of liguor would be rritorial liguor Th: er under wm'rl Mr. Schoettler dealt with by hg attention to the fact that ent Juneau pr are lower than Seattle prices; that the State mark-up” on liquor in Washington is 584 per cent whereas merchants n Alaska mark-up their liquor between 33 and 40 per cer If eco ¢ and moral evils| have ari 1 under the present sys- em, inevitably they will become more prolific under the proposed Territorial control ense By Fine “Typical of monopc control Wachington still employs the ‘li cense by fine tem,” Mr. Schoet tler said He then guoted a front page fea- ture story in the Seattle Times of June 30, written by Walter C. Wood- ward, formerly of The Empire in Juneau, in which Judge Guy B | Knott of King County defended the “liconse by fine" system as “making the best of a situation.” | Judge Knott, in whose court rfuul:n‘ offenders, “speakeasy proprietors, regularly appeared, were fined, con- | tinued 'their cperations and appear- |ed to be fined again, said tever get rid of bootleggers.' itor B. Gray Warner, ac « to the article in the Times aid, “The law should be enforced as long as it is on the books. But 1 think the law should be changed 50 that the sale of liquor by the| drink would be permitted.” “I don’t say that Alaska has the perfect system,” Mr. Schoettler con- cluded, “but I do prefer the pre: fent Alaska system of adminis tion that has honest, impartial law | enforcement of the law free from | scandal, to the monopoly system and (enforcement through shake-downs and pay-cffs. Before we vote for a | change, T think we are entitled to | know wlmL that change will be.” R WILLKIEIS INCOLORADO COLORADO SPRINGS, Col [ 10.—~Wendell L. Willkie | Presidential candidate, checked in |at the Broadmore Hotel here last after flying from Washing- |ton, D. C. He announced he is on a vacation and intends to do mostly hothing { July ‘the sun, but not too denim. Her shorts MODES of t/re MOMENT by Amy Porter exposed, is this summer girl in a are knee-length, her middy blouse close at the waistline. The trim fit will last as long on ¥ carried, clerk inspectors, etc., put on the f Since the Organic Act pro- ritory receiving mer- | jgnment or any him the | | 127,009 total, Republican | Bristol Bay Nazi Agent - Pack Passes .. 200,000 Mark Early Wesrmard Pack in LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 10— A Federal grand jury has indicted |Dr. Herbert Hoehne, 29, a German, | |an charges of failure to Tegister as |an agent of a foreign government |and failure to hotify the ‘Secretary f State of "hi resence. in the | General Below that o0 g oi ™ Preseneset ™ | Dr. Hoehné was arrested and in| Of Year Ago ) ims posb(“sion was diplomatic mail for,, ersi 'fo ' South «American | The red salmon pack in Bristo]| Gehflln msmms Bay up to July 6 amounted to 221,687 cases, according to the week- | 10 HAVE TABLET Total Westward pack to that date was 466,954 cases as compared with 504,364 by the same time last sea-| |son, t The patk was as follows: Alaska Peninsula (South Side)—| 54,302 reds, 1,463 kings, 30575/ A bronze tablet in honor of Jim pinks, 40354 chums, 315 cohoes,|Huscroft, Alaska pioneer who died 132,766 last year. |a year ago is to be set up lhlS | Alaska Peninsula (North sidm— wmmer near his home on Ceno-| 16,200 reds, 80 kings, 164 chums,'taph Island, in Lituya Bay. 16,534 total, 10474 last year. || The tablet, erected by the mem- Copper River—37,645 reds, 1,545% bers of thé Harvard-Dartmeuth Al- | reds, 1,284 kings, 38,929 total, 55,876 askan expeditions of 1930, 1932, last_year. 1933 and 1934, was brought here Prince William Sound—286 reds, | by Bradford Washburn. It will be set up by Victor H. Cahalane of 710 pinks, 794 chums, 11 cohoes, 11,800 total, 4,581 total last year. the Fish and Wildlife Service, who Cook Trilet—25,307 reds, 11,680 Plans a trip to Lituya Bay shori- kings, 4680 kings, 4080 pinks 6| 1y- 230 chums, 1,356 cohoes, 48,653 to-| tal, 26,560 last year. as follows: Bristol, Bay—221,687 reds, 1,145 “Near this spet Jim Huscroft, Kings, 152 pinks, 11,045 chums, 234,- Alagkan pioncer and frontiersman, 020 total, 364,107 last year. magde his home for 22 years. His Westward totals—355,516 reds, 15,- | kindness and generosity endeared 652 kings, 35517 pinks, 58587 him to all those whose work or chums, ‘1,682 ¢ohoes; 466954 total, ‘mveLshbmw;hQ them, tc; this beau- 2y ‘The inscription on the tablet 594,364 last 3earv 7 | COL. KNOX ’“‘?ffifi'fimfim (ONFIRMED BAY, ADMIRALTY ¥ s A study of wildlife on Admiralty ,’w,‘h"]““'“;N' ";Ll!v g The|1and, in Glacier Bay National enate, late this afleruogn, by: a Monument, Mt. McKinley National vote of 66 to 16, confirmed bthoipgy”ang Katmal Nationdl Monu- nomination of Col, Frank Knox to| et is to be made in the next two be Secretary of Nayy in l’"’“"em‘\month by Victor H. Cahalane, bio- Roosevelt's cablnet {logist in charge of the section on [ Natiohal Park Wildlife of gxe Fish and Wildlife Service. arrived jmw "Am‘ here on the steamer Colurhbia. Cahalane was met here by Super- TR Arflc ST“-[ {infendent Frank T. Been of Mt. Mc- Klnley National Park, who flew from. Fairbanks Monday. They will | AI m“ P"(“ leave ‘tomorrow on the Forest Ser- | d VIM 8hip’ Forester to visit Admir- ! nlt After returning here in about John Amundsen flew to Canyon|1g: . they will go to the Inter- Island today, while' Shell Stmmans| ic;' gnd Westward. and Alex Holden made trips to the | coast. Amundsen flew R, W. McCrary‘mER"So“ "(K to the Taku River radio station! on Canyon Island and' brought | him back with operator Ross Mor-| rison and his mother. After three weeks in the States, Simmons flew Fred Harris, Ro-|during which he attended the Re- | bert Blaine and Robert Moe ' to publican onvention in Phnadelphla Port Althorp. and ‘Mr. and Mrs. J.|R. E. Robertson returned to' Juneau McCracken rounq\ trip to Sifka. |On the steamer Columbia, Holden took the LockHeed out| While in the East, tson with Clark Bassett round trip to|made an overnight trip to' Wash-| Hoonah, Josie Lewis toHawk “In-|ington, D..C, to visit his.daughter let and Archie Bell to Tenakee, | C8rol, and’ on the way home visited John Amundsen came in yester-|Nis mother in Iowa for a few days. day with C. Douglas, Clark Bas- TR sett, Sarah Palmer, Mrs. Russell ¢ CONGDON MTUINS Clithero and Mrs, Ralston, while|. DF- Palmer Congdon, Tuberculo-| Alex Holden brought in ."me Lewis | 518 ‘Clinician of the Territorial De- frém Héwk Inlet, partment of Health, returned on L the steamer Columbia after a flying A 5 i | trip, across comnfitry to Boston on va- - ! cation. Mrs. H. W. Anderson | |t Is Hostess Yesterday X | passenger on the steamer Colum-| Mrs. H. W. Anderson was hostess| bia. ' Wilgus was formerly stationed | yesterday afternoon with. a lunch-|at Joliet, I, and for the past| - e WEATHER MAN ' Russell' Wilgus, 'U. S. Weather Burean 'observer, was a through con at her home on West Ninth|year has' been studying at New Street, York * Um\'ersxty Bridge provided entertainment | - for the occasion and honors were " "FO HASSELBORG won by Mrs. Joe Cdmpbell first.|' Mr. and’ Mrs. Arthur Glover nnd and Mrs. Andrew Rosness, conso- | Mr. and Mrs. Harld Smith flew | lation. ‘Lo Hasselborg Lake yesterday eve- Asked for the afternoon were ning to spend thmc days fishing. Mesdiimes W. P. Scott, C. L. Tubls, Mss Nwflfil HERE R. J. Cowling, Joe Campbell,” Hans | Berg, Oscar Oberg, George Osborne, Miss Margaret Rowher arrived on: the Columbia from her home C. Bloomgquist,” Olal Bodding, An- in Spangi rew ROS"Q!"hhé thther and ngle, Wash., for a visit ot P v Rbout three weeks with her sister John Satre. Mrs, T. J. Pyle. | IR . MRS. BRINDLE 1S - Mus. William Brindle urlvgdh’ra‘ by plane yesterday from Ketchi- kan, and is visiting briefly with her sister-in-law, Mrs. .. J -.C. Michaelson, ¢ Mus. Brindle wis accompanied. to ;{\' . Capital thy w\”r two: chil- ren. \ Well, — m—_. MRS. ELTHERD v | VISITING HERE M5, /Russéll” Clighero flew to| ‘Junelu trom” Sitka ymrdw"eve-‘ ning to spend a few ddys visiting her many, friends bere. - | It is the first time ‘Mrs, Clithero, :&5 been to her former Juneau; ome since she jol v B ST m‘. spring. While in Juneau she is a guest| +at " thie " Baranor Hotel, =~ = stolen THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1940. Is Indicted 10 JIM HUSCROFT FROM TRIP BELOW. by fire or other cause. cost much Phcne lo: de:mh\ SHATTUCK AGENCY Ciicq——New York Life Telephone 249 l 6 Halibuters Sell, Seattle 10, SEATTLE, July Halibuters arriving here today, sold their catches as follow: | From the western banks—Venture, 36,000 pounds, 9% cents a pound | straight; Arrow, 35000 pounds, 10, and 9% cents; Estep, 29,000 pounds, 10’4 and 9% cents. From the local banks—Lively, 16,- | 000 pounds, Angels,” 10,000 pounds, both at Q' and, 9% centg; Aloha, [ 17,000 folinds,; 10 and. 9% cents. ENTERTAINMENI IS PLANNED FOR MRS. CCRWITH To honor Mrs. wm:am Co|wt1| of New York, National President the American Legion Auxiliary, who will arrive in Juneau on Saturday the local Department of the Legion Auxiliary, Past Department Presi- dents and the Unit has arranged a | program of entertainment during her brief visitation here. Arriving Saturday on the steamer Alaska, Mrs. Corwith will be guest of honor at a barbecue picnic in the evening at the Skaters’ Cabin. Cars will leave the Dugout at 6:30 o'clock and all Legion members, Auxiliary members and Junior Legion Auxil- iary membeérs are extended an invi- | tation to attend. On Monday afternoon Mrs, Ermest ' Gruening will' be' hostess with & téa at the Governor’s House in honor of Mrs. Carwith, to which all mem- bers of the Auxiliary and’Juniors are invited. | In the evening a no-host diriner will be held in the Iris Room of the- Baranof Hotel, with Mrs. Corwith | as guest speaker, The affair will be | informal and is open to the public. | Reservations may be made by call- ing Mrs, Homer Nordling at 366, Mrs. John ‘McCormick at 5477 ot | . ‘George. Gullufsen ‘at Blue 2‘55 i Lvav)ng Juneaji * Tuesday, Mr: Corwith' wi)l'gd, hy PAA Elvotra’ to | Fairbanks to visit Auxiliary ‘Units there as' well as in Anchorage, Sew- ard, Valdez and Cordova, She will xvtux%u thé sqtq onf §he; steamer Aleul =;‘~ | | Vienna Woods, GIRLSCOUTTEA & HERE TOMORROW A Girl —cout tea will be neld to- morfow afternoon in the pariors of ghe Northern Ligh't Pfesbyterian | Church between 2:30 and 4:30 | o'clogk. il All Brownies, Girl Scouts and their mothers are especially invited | | to attend. Mrs. B. R. Glass and Mrs. G. Edward Knight, sted by Girl ‘Scouts who have earned their host- | ess badges, will preside at the tea -lblc for A program has been planned | 3:30 o'clock. 'l Stock QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, July 10. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 95'%, Anaconda 19%, Bethlehem | Steel 75, Commonwealth and South- lern 1%, Curtiss Wright 67, Gen- eral Motors 43%, International Har- vester 43, Kennecott 25'%, New York Central 11%, Northern Pacific 6%, | United States Steel 15%, Pound I sa.17% | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 121.49; rails, 25.99; utiltics, 22.8%. P | EDWARDS RETURNS Ken Edwards, popular traveling :umn is registered at the Baranof. ‘wLunnn" to town last night. \ > oo MRS. GALLWAS HERE Mrs, Harold Gallwas and daugh- ter Marjorie Gail, have arrived ‘fmm the Westward for a t with i her mother, Mrs. James Smith, and | her ' husband’s parents, Mr. and |Mrs. F. A. J. Gallwas. b -ee | The Daily Alaska mmpire guaran- Lec.s the largest daily circulation of Alaska rewspape How Much s Your Werth? it's ‘worth that much to someone else, too—someone who may manage to take it without your knowledge. surance policy: would quickly re- imburse you if your camera were A Camera in- or damaged or destroyed Dogsn't Two Piclures - Will Return ~ For Showing Capatol Theatre Manage- ment Makes Announce- ment . Costs Higher Juneau theatregoers will be pmas-‘ ed lo learn that two great pictures are scheduled for return engage- ments at the Capitol Theatre some- | time in the near future The first, and most impertant to music lovers, is the picture, “The | Great Waltz,” picturizing the life of Johann Strauss, including in the musi\ 1 scores his “Tales from | and “Blue Danube.” The other fine show will be a re- showinz of “Mutiny on the Bounty. Information reaching here the past month ,and repeated again this week, points to an increase costs. in motion pictures in America. This is | due mainly. to the European war, which has forced practically all American-made pictures off the screens of ajl European countries. This means that all pictures made in America will haave to be absorbed | in the Americas at increased prices to absorb the 'loss in Europe. Al- ready many studios in Hollywood |are closing down and reducing per- sontiel ‘to Mmeet ‘the cus(s of fewer | foteign muke'xm, SERVACE HELD ~ LAST EVENING Miss Mary Buckland Be- comes Bride of Mr. | Frank Richards Miss Mary Buckland, o« Vancou- . ver, B, C., hecame the’ bride of Mr.' Fraik Richards of Bitka, at & double ring ceremony performed last eve- ning ‘at 8 o'clock in the Northern 'Light Presbyterian 'Church., The | Rev. John A. Glasse officiated. White tapers in candelabra and skets of white daisies were ar-) ranged across the altar for the service and tapers were placed at each of the window ledges Organ music w: played before the ceremony by Mus. Carol Beery Davis, who also played muted se- | lections during the reading of the VOWS. | The bride was charming | navy in a of white gardenias. Mrs. John B. !Halm, her only attendant, wore a Iblack frock and accessories with a corsage of pink roses. Mr. Thomas A. Morgan was best | Following the nuptials a recep- | tion ' was held at the John B. Halm |residence on ‘Tenth Street, where the “bride’s table was attractively centered with a bridal cake topped by a tiny bride and groom and off- set by tall white tapers. Mus. i iman for the couple. 3 4 i and white ensemble with | matching accessories and a corsage | Richards arrived here last ) Hotel. U 5. DEPARTMI F COMMERCE; WEATHER BURE/ THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.n., July 10: Fair with partly cloudy skies and not much change in temperature | for tonizght and Thurs ; minimum temptrature tonight 48 de- | grees; moderate northerly winds. | orecast. for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy over the north | portion and mostly cloudy with occasional showers over the south portion, tonight and Thursday; not - much change in temperature; moderate northerly winds, becoming soul,hensberly over the south por- tion Thursday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate northe winds tonight, becoming variable and mostly southeasterly Thursday, from Dixon Erftrance to Cape Hinchinbrook; and moderate southeasterly from Cape Hinchinbrook to Kodiak. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer 7emp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather | 4:30 pm. yesty 29.98 56° 19 SE 21 Cl(m(h 4:30 a.m. today 30.08 52 9% SwW 1 | Noon' today 30.08 66 67 s 4 | RADIO. REPORTS. TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30a.m. Station last 24 hours temp. temp, 24hours Weather Fairbanks 83 52 53 0 Cloudy Nome 53 49 53 54 Rain Dawson 82 52 52 Pt. Cldy Anchorage 66 46 46 0 Pt. Cldy Bethel 61 | 52 54 52 Rain St. Paul 48 43 45 21 Cloudy Dutch Harbor .. 67 | 45 47 0 Cloudy ‘Wosnesenski 50 | 49 50 1.00 Rain Kanatak 61 | 59 53 90 Rain Rodiak 60 | 49 50 0 Pt. Cldy Cordova 0 I 50 54 0 Cloudy Juneau 2 51 52 25 Foggy Sitka 60 | 47 58 10 Cloudy Ketchikan 67 50 al 14 Pt. Cldy Prince Rupert . 63 | 50 52 04 Cloudy Prince George . 71 46 46 .08 Fogg, Seattle 8 | 5 55 0 Smoky Portland 82 60 69 [ Smoky 68 51 51 0 Clear San Francisco WEATHER SYNOPSIS © The weather' chart’ this morning showed a minor disturbance cen:- | tered off the coaSt of Washington DOUBLE RING' situated over the Bering Sea, while Cloudy ' weather There ‘Were showers over Southeast the coast of Oregon, and rain was the Gulf of Alaska! sula and the Bering Sea region. Juneau, July. 11. ‘Sunnsc 4:11 am,, and a more intense disturbance relatively high pressure lay over prevailed over most of Alaska. Alaska and thence southward to general over the Alaska Penin- sunset 9:59 p m., evemn{, from Vancouver, B.'C., on the Princess Charlotte. Mr. Richard: is assistaht manager of the Sitka | yards for the Columbia Lumber Co They are staying at the Baranof Hotel and will sail for Sitka on Saturday. i S HospiTAL NOTES Brenno was a sur- Ann’s Hos- Mrs, Melvin gical admission to St. pital this morning. Denny Merritt, son of Mr. and Mrs. K. G. Merritt, was dismissed today from St. Ann's after his | tonsils were removed, Joe Gansneder was a surgical dis- missal from St. Ann’s today. | | After receiving medical treatment at St. ‘Ann’s Hospital, Dao Bolanti was dismissed today. . | Wesley Wong was a medical ad- 1mis.sion today at St. Ann's. A haby girl was ‘born last night Katherine Joseph, e | ! PABST MAN | Stanley Zweibel, Pabst Sales | Company man, is at the Baranof nnd will continue to be. 8 COMPANY at the Government Hospital to Mrs._ . DOUGLAS NEWS CANNERY RU PICKING Douglas Fisheries Compt heir 1 on 650 cases of yesterday for the day's canning, bringing the total pack to date around 2,500 cases. Enough [ish were on the floor for another 500 cases, it was reported, and pros- pects seemed in evidence thei the run of salmon would start in earnest soon, - ee— ur put Imon PETTYGROVE FLIES HOME After a week’s visit in the first city Frank Pettygrove returned home by plane yesterday, and is back again at his job at the Al- aska Juneau. - YOUNGSTERS ENJOY BIRTHDAY DINNER Mickey Pusich who was thirteen years old yesterday celebrated his birthday with a dinner party at home for a few of his friends. DOUGLAS-Coliseum Tuesday and Wedneday RITZ BROTHERS in “THE GORILLA" I /so is it the desire of the Alaska Steamship Company to fit its service to the seasonal needs of Alaska traffic. Extra service when it is needed during the short peak season combined with dependable year ’round sailings to Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska never less than once a week—this has long been the policy of The Alnska‘ Line, ALASKA STEAMSHIP